Pulitzer Prize-winning author Cormac McCarthy wrote the script in which Michael Fassbender will play a respected lawyer who thinks he can dip a toe in to the drug business without getting sucked in. It is a bad decision and he tries his best to survive it and get out of a desperate situation.
Cruz has been attached for weeks and now it's official that she willplay Fassbender's fiancee Laura--a role that had Natalie Portman in its sights. Cruz's husband, Javier Bardem, is now to play the role of the villain, a criminal named Reiner who facilitates the lawyer's entry into the drug trade. The bad guy role is being likened to Bardem's turn in the film adaptation of McCarthy's "No Country for Old Men" This would be the first time the husband and wife have worked together since Woody Allen's "Vicky Cristina Barcelona."
Brad Pitt looks likely to take the small part of West Ray, a "mysterious figure that advises Fassbender's character on the drug trade". There is still no word on whether Pitt's soon to be wife Angelina Jolie will be able to join "The Counselor." She is currently scheduled to begin filming "Maleficent" in June, around the time this film is set to start production.
Nick Wechsler, Steve and Paula Mae Schwartz will produce.
In Brief Cruz, will team with Antonio Banderas says Screen Daily.
Almodóvar is currently ending rehearsals for the film with Cruz and Banderas in final talks to appear in the ensemble comedy which will see them sharing a scene together.
The story will be set against a plane accident. The passengers, fearing for their lives, begin to confess their inner secrets. Both Banderas and Cruz will shoot their scenes in one day.
Other cast members include Javier Cámara, Guillermo Toledo, Raúl Arévalo, Hugo Silva, Cecilia Roth, Miguel Angel Silvestre, Blanca Suárez, José María Yazik and Antonio de la Torre. »
'Brief' marks Cruz's fifth teaming with Almodovar.
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